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Qwen 3.5 Gets an Open-Source Release (Qwen3.5-397B-A17B)

The natively multimodal open source AI model boasts impressive benchmark scores.

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Jim Clyde Monge
Feb 17, 2026
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The Alibaba Cloud team has officially released Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, the first open-weight model in their new Qwen 3.5 series. This is pretty huge because it introduces native vision-language architecture that processes text and images as a single, unified stream rather than separate components.

What makes this model unique is its efficiency: despite conta…

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